Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for Horse with a Heart by Altan

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Artist NameAltan
Album TitleHorse with a Heart
MusiciansMairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (fiddle, vocals), Frankie Kennedy (flute), Paul O'Shaughnessy (fiddle), Ciaran Curran (bouzouki), Mark Kelly (guitar), with various.
Source and
other information		Green Linnet GLCD 1095, 1989. Recorded July 1988 in Dublin.

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Every Irish tune on this album was identified by carefully comparing this recorded performance with all other tunes in the Irish Traditional Music Tune Index—by comparing musically, disregarding tune titles. The track and tune numbers below, furthermore, correspond to what you actually hear on this album. This page is thus more reliable than the original album notes, track titles listed by iTunes/Media Player, or other Web sites, all of which usually suffer from errors.

TrackTuneTune ID#RhythmTitles used for this tune (and other notes)
11 Tune Info
438		 Reel Curlews, The / The Curlew / The Curlew Reel / Road to Cashel / Darach DeBrun's [Darach de Brún's] (composed by Josephine Keegan)
2 Tune Info
3220		 Reel Father O'Grady's Visit to Bocca / Father O'Grady's Visit to Bockagh / Father O'Grady's Trip to Bocca / McDermott's (compare distantly 1st part with 1st part of Peg McGrath's #4505) (composed by Josie McDermott)
3 Tune Info
1902		 Reel Three Scones of Boxty / Altan Tune
1(2:59)4 Tune Info
3221		 Reel Lansdowne Lass, The / The Slate Roof (untitled on A HH) (1st part same as 1st part of The Lansdowne Lass #4739, and 2nd part is similar in spots) (composed by Josie McDermott)
21 Tune Info
3083		 Song Lass of Glenshee, The / The Hills of Glenshee
31 Tune Info
367		 Hland Little Katey Kearney / Little Katie Kearney / Con Cassidy's Highland (as reel in book 1850)
2 Tune Info
1398		 Hland Watchmaker, The / Neil Gow's Highland [Niel Gow's Highland] / Neil Gow's Wife [Niel Gow's Wife] / John Doherty's / John Gaffney's Fling / Thistle and Shamrock / Con Cassidy's (3rd in set Thistle and Shamrock on MG) (also as reel; misattributed to Frank Higgins in book JKg 3) (compare strathspey Niel Gow's Wife)
3 Tune Info
1325		 Reel Moll and Tiarna
4 Tune Info
1268		 Reel Bragan Lasses, The / McSweeney's Reels (the latter plural title is given to this single tune on A HH)
41 Tune Info
1681		 JigD Road to Durham, The (composed by Armin Barnet and David Molk)
51 Tune Info
3223		 Song An t-Oileán Úr
61 Tune Info
3224		 JigD An Grianán (composed by Frankie Kennedy)
2 Tune Info
3225		 JigD Horse with a Heart (composed by Frankie Kennedy)
71 Tune Info
3226		 Song A Bhean Udaí Thall (compare text to text of Wind and Rain #4551)
81 Tune Info
2043		 JigD Welcome Home Gráinne / Johnny the Jumper / Langstrom's Pony (2nd in set Welcome Home Gráinne on DByrn) (also in B) (compare 1st and 3rd parts of Mooncoin #1337,although not so much with setting on DByrn, which is noticeably different than other settings; compare DByrn setting as strathspey #4768)
2 Tune Info
370		 Reel Con McGinley's
3 Tune Info
3227		 Reel Con McGinley's
91 Tune Info
3228		 Song Tuirse Mo Chroí
101 Tune Info
365		 March Come Ye by Atholl
2 Tune Info
1057		 March Kitty O'Connor
111 Tune Info
619		 Air An Feochán / Gentle Breeze (composed by Tommy Peoples)
121 Tune Info
1533		 Reel Paddy's Trip to Scotland
2 Tune Info
512		 Reel Dinky's / Dinkies / Dinkey Dorian (composed by Dinky Dorrian)
3 Tune Info
1764		 Reel Shetland Fiddler, The (3rd in set Jamesy Gannon's on NNC) (compare distantly The Hawk #813)
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